Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
The Trouble with Some People.

From the Soinervile Journal
The trouble with good many men Is that they
spend so much time admiring their own ability
that they don't let other people have chance TO
see that they have any ability TO admire.
The trouble with great many women Is that
they can't find some particular selected man who
Will appreciate them as they reel In their papita.
ting hearts that every woman should be appreci-
ated
The trouble with a good MANY girls is that they
don't md out what they want until some time after
they have had the sad conclusion forced upon
them that what they want doesn't want them.
The trouble with good many boys is that they
think the red grapes that grow on a neighbours
vine, and that have TO be picked after dark, are
grapes that grow on their own vines and can be
gathered In the bright sunlight OF puoicity
The tiouole with great many readers ia that
they don't understand how much easier it ia to
point out tree In magnificent landscape that is
hairs breadth out OF perspective than It is to
paint the magnificent landscape itself.
The trouble with most OF the horse-car conduc-
tors Is that they haven't eyes enough In the back
OF their heads to satisfy the public.
The trouble with a good many Of the school
teachers that the present school year is divided
wrong; instead OF being forty weeks school and
twelve weeks vacation, they think 1t should be
The trouble with twO-thirds OF the boys an girls
In the public schools Is that they don't have fffly-
three weeks vacation every year, with an addi-
The trouble with most OF the people in this mis-
guided world Is that they waste so much time
tnlukiIg Oh tneir own virtues and enterprises that
they don't have leisure 10 see how laudable and
useful your little schemes are.
The trouble with the small boy is that his big
sister never was small boy herself and so she
doesn't know how the small boy feels
The trouble with the small girl 1, that she isn't
bigger.
The trouble with the big girl IS that every pair OF
scales she steps Oh gives her weigh
The trouble with The purist In grammar is that
people Will persist In thinking that things them.
selves are more important than how you saw
them.
The trouble with lots OF cats is that they don't
get enough dreamless sleep these November
nights.
The trouble with milliners is that the women
folks don't get so enthusiastic over their bills as
they do over their bOnnets.
The trouble with the average wife Is that her
husband is more prodigal with his protest atons of
affection than he is with his money, and that he
doesn't waste much OF either unless he wants a
button sewed on.
Tn trouble with the average husband is that he
knows his wife knows he isn't so big a man as he
wants the world TO think he Is
The trouble with the people generally Is that they
can't always nave what they want and they sei.
dom think they want what they have: that they
see their own virtues and other peoples vices with
magn1fying glass, and turn the telescope the
wrong end TO when they look at their own vices
and other peoples virtues; that they prumble
wnen things 90 wrong instead OF going to WORK to
make things go right: that they CRY over spilled
milk when, In all PROBABILITY, the milk has ali the
water 1t can stand already.